Miss America Pageant Rocked by Scandal Over CEO's Slut-Shaming Emails

Miss America scandal leads TV company to cut ties

Jay Anderson
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24 December, 2017, 03:43

"I have decided that when referring to a woman who was once Miss America, we are no longer going to call them Forever Miss Americas", CEO Sam Haskell wrote in 2014 to Lewis Friedman, then the show's lead writer, in the emails obtained by the HuffingtonPost. Haddad was a member of the Miss America board until she resigned following the Post story.

Mallory Hagan, Miss America 2013, was a particular target of Haskell in his emails.

"We are deeply disturbed and saddened to learn of the sickening and egregious words used by Miss America leadership in reference both to our group and to specific members of our sisterhood", the former Miss Americas said in a joint statement. But the initial Huffington Post report said that the organization claimed it had already conducted an investigation over "allegations of inappropriate comments" in emails.

The New Jersey Casino Reinvestment Development Authority, which provides a $4 million annual subsidy to keep the pageant in Atlantic City, announced Friday that it was working with its legal counsel "to undertake an immediate review of its contract with the Miss America Organization and Dick Clark Productions to assess what steps we may need to take".

Past winners, including Kate Shindle, a Moorestown native who won the crown in 1998, said the organization's leadership needed to be purged but the institution, which holds its annual pageant at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, should be preserved. "In addition, the Board wishes to reaffirm our commitment to the education and empowerment of young women, supporting them in every way possible".

"When I first read the emails in the article, I wasn't shocked but I was validated", she said.

The Huffington Postrecently published a report uncovering a series of emails from Haskell, who made and/or agreed with disparaging remarks about former winners, including ex-Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson.

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